Isabelle Huppert

Italian director Romeo Castellucci delivers a bold reimagining of Racine's "Berenice" at Onassis Stegi (107 Syngrou), with French actress Isabelle Huppert portraying the wounded heroine stripped of her royalty as 14 men dictate her fate. The production, a manifesto of love and power, features striking costumes by Dutch designer Iris van Herpen and an evocative score by Scott Gibbons.

"Dahomey", a documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing the thorny issues surrounding Europe's return of looted antiquities to Africa, won the Berlin film festival's top prize on Feb. 23.

Kenyan-Mexican Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o announced the seven-member panel's choice for the Golden Bear award at a gala ceremony in the German capital.

The Berlinale, Europe's first major international film festival of the year, returned as a live event on Feb. 10 just as Germany faces record daily coronavirus infections.

One of the world's biggest theatre festivals gets underway on July 5 in the southern French city of Avignon after a year-long hiatus caused by COVID-19, with masks compulsory for audiences but organizers relishing a return to relative normality.

Theatre is my country, a huge country, with no borders, free of prejudice, said Isabelle Huppert, after being granted a star on the Hall of Celebrities within the Gala of the International Theatre Festival of Sibiu (FITS).

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is to chair the jury that will pick the award winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival, reported BBC. 

She is "a rare and unique artist with talent and conviction", the Cannes Film Festival organisers said.

In our first review we spoke about two films at Cannes this year ("Sea Sorrow" and "Jupiter's Moon") focusing on one of the main themes of this year's festival: The migration crisis. This is only part of the overall crisis in today's Europe, which includes the degeneration of the political and economic system as well as of human values.

Louis Garrel and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the latter's 'Un Chateau en Italie.'